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Subject: Re: Fw: A little wish list for the blind

Re: Fw: A little wish list for the blind

From: BlueChip <cs_bluechip_at_webtribe.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:13:45 +0000

"Using the MP3 sounds might be okay, but there is a time lag in the MP3 sounds"

Why's that then?

"we would not want our menus to use MP3 files"

Then we should not waste any further time on this project.

At 00:54 25/02/04, you wrote:
>Hi Nicolas,
>Yes, we pretty much remember the order of our folders.
>e.g., mine is set up like this:
>50's 60's 70's 80's 90's+ Assorted Classical Comedy
>So I arrow to the folder and enter it and I start playing.
>Play lists seem like they are not feasible for us right now.
>But perhaps with knowing the order of the play lists after pressing a
>certain F-key, they might work.
>
>As far as getting the menus to talk,
>Using the MP3 sounds might be okay, but there is a time lag in the MP3
>sounds that might be frustrating enough, that we would not want our menus to
>use MP3 files as opposed to synthetic speech.
>Glenn.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Touillaud Nicolas" <Nicolas.Touillaud_at_fr.thalesgroup.com>
>To: "'Rockbox development'" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
>Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 9:19 AM
>Subject: RE: Fw: A little wish list for the blind
>
>
>Hi !
>First of all, sorry if I'm rude, I'm french and I don't know if it is
>"politicaly correct" or even polite to speek to blind people like I'm about
>to do. No offense :)
>
>I just wonder how you, blind users, manage to navigate thru the hard drive
>directory of the box.
>Is it "just" because you know where is everything ? I'm pretty organized
>myself, but since hard drive activity can disturb the navigation, I'm lost
>if I can't see the screen...
>
>
>Nicolas

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